Re: wps extensions plugin

2007-01-17 Thread David Hall
Daniel Stenberg wrote: On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, David Hall wrote: Those who value core size over eye-candy would have a nice, clean and simple WPS interface very similar to today (with arguably less cruft), while those who want massive eye-candy WPSs would have a way to implement them without int

Re: wps extensions plugin

2007-01-17 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, David Hall wrote: How is offloading all graphical and extended tag WPS functions to a plugin in conflict with keeping it simple? First, it keeps the core simple and that's my primary concern. Then, it is still (in my opinion) *simpler* than the previously suggested method

Re: wps extensions plugin

2007-01-17 Thread David Hall
Daniel Stenberg wrote: On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Jonathan Gordon wrote: Well the idea came up in irc yesterday about possibly adding a plugin which would add extra tags to the wps without overloading the core, anyway, its sort of finished and I want t know what people think and weather its committ

Re: wps extensions plugin

2007-01-17 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Simon M. wrote: Then I hope very much that it is never considered to move existing wps functionality to a plugin I certainly don't think we should do that. This WPS plugin idea I'm talking about would run instead of the normal WPS, as the normal would be built-in exactly

Re: wps extensions plugin

2007-01-17 Thread Simon M.
You're right about that, but I think that would be a rather small penalty for running your own wps like this. Also, a TSR can't do anything with the GUI so it would take some new trick if that's desired. Then I hope very much that it is never considered to move existing wps functionality to a pl

Re: wps extensions plugin

2007-01-17 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Simon M. wrote: Why would it be a TSR? I don't know the internals of rockbox that much, but what happens if I want to enter the file browser or the main menu? If the WPS is not a TSR it would be exited and then loaded again -> disc spinup. You're right about that, but

Re: wps extensions plugin

2007-01-17 Thread Simon M.
Why would it be a TSR? I don't know the internals of rockbox that much, but what happens if I want to enter the file browser or the main menu? If the WPS is not a TSR it would be exited and then loaded again -> disc spinup. But maybe I'm completely wrong here.

Re: wps extensions plugin

2007-01-17 Thread Simon M.
If we have the wps in a plugin (which is then a tsr plugin) what happens if I want to load another plugin? Or another tsr plugin?

Re: wps extensions plugin

2007-01-17 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Simon M. wrote: If we have the wps in a plugin (which is then a tsr plugin) what happens if I want to load another plugin? Or another tsr plugin? Why would it be a TSR? -- Daniel Stenberg -- http://www.rockbox.org/ -- http://daniel.haxx.se/

Re: wps extensions plugin

2007-01-17 Thread mat holton
Jonathan Gordon wrote: On 17/01/07, mat holton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jonathan Gordon wrote: >> I second that. What problem are you trying to solve? > Mostly my boredom. > Also trying to think of ways to add functionality without affecting > the core size. > > As for making a new plugin to d

Re: wps extensions plugin

2007-01-17 Thread Jonathan Gordon
On 17/01/07, mat holton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jonathan Gordon wrote: >> I second that. What problem are you trying to solve? > Mostly my boredom. > Also trying to think of ways to add functionality without affecting > the core size. > > As for making a new plugin to do the whole wps, I thoug

Re: wps extensions plugin

2007-01-17 Thread mat holton
Jonathan Gordon wrote: I second that. What problem are you trying to solve? Mostly my boredom. Also trying to think of ways to add functionality without affecting the core size. As for making a new plugin to do the whole wps, I thought everyone was against that idea? Just out of interest, wha

Re: wps extensions plugin

2007-01-17 Thread Jonathan Gordon
I second that. What problem are you trying to solve? Mostly my boredom. Also trying to think of ways to add functionality without affecting the core size. As for making a new plugin to do the whole wps, I thought everyone was against that idea?

Re: "Now Playing" Menu Entry

2007-01-17 Thread Alistair Marshall
Well in that case what is it exactly that is wanted, originally the patch just exited the menu quickly when play was pressed. it was suggested that it should be the menu (or A-B in the case of irivers) The patch ended up doing the exact same as the file tree: play goes to WPS (and starts

Re: wps extensions plugin

2007-01-17 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Daniel Stenberg wrote: On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Jonathan Gordon wrote: Well the idea came up in irc yesterday about possibly adding a plugin which would add extra tags to the wps without overloading the core, anyway, its sort of finished and I want t know what people think and weather its committ

Re: wps extensions plugin

2007-01-17 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Jonathan Gordon wrote: Well the idea came up in irc yesterday about possibly adding a plugin which would add extra tags to the wps without overloading the core, anyway, its sort of finished and I want t know what people think and weather its committable? I think it sound

Re: wps extensions plugin

2007-01-17 Thread Jonathan Gordon
On 15/01/07, Jonathan Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey all, Well the idea came up in irc yesterday about possibly adding a plugin which would add extra tags to the wps without overloading the core, anyway, its sort of finished and I want t know what people think and weather its committable?